Big High Fructose Corn Syrup's petition to the FDA to change the name of high fructose corn syrup to "corn sugar" was thoroughly rejected. Because it is a syrup, not a sugar. And because corn sugar is dextrose, a completely separate thing. [fda.gov]

Kids are getting phthalates from PVC floors, which, I guess I don't know what floors are PVC? Since the top 10 Google results for PVC flooring are all about this study, I'm guessing no one knows when their flooring is PVC. [sciencedaily]